The Labor enquirer., 1887-10-08
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efactors of mankind. So. too, of
these men. 1t is probably
better that they should die.
die in their innocence, at
the hands of their guilty
enemies, the oppressors Of labor.
All tbs signs Of the times point
ominously to the fact that we are
now upon the eve of great revo-
luton; and, since the wheels of
every revolution must be lubri-
Gated with the life-blood of some
of its earliest and ablest promoters,
the wheels of this. the mightiest
revolutihn of the earth, may as
we'll be fabricated with the life
blood of these men as with that Of
any others. Their names may as
well be immortalized in history,
in tradition and in song, as the
names of any others. Let the
revolution 60 on. These men
themselves would doubtless rather
die upon the scaffold than that it
should not go on. And if these
seven men do perish thus, it is
safe to predict that seven hundred
thousand laboring men will soon
perish in the same cause, and that
monopoly and the monopolists
upon American soil, will become
forever things of the past. We
read of the seven geological
epochs, the seven now solid ele-
ments, the seven primary colors,
the seven sciences, the seven VOW
els of vocal sounds, the seven
notes in music, the seven stars, the
seven wonders of the world. the
seven wise men of Greece, the
seven days of the week, the seven
years of plenty, the seven years of
famine, the seven hills of Rome,
the seven plaques of Egypt, the
seven churches, the seven candle
sticks, the seven angels, the seven
devils. the seven vials of wrath,
the seven heads of the beast, the
seven times seven years between
the jubilees, the seventy times
seven pardons' to be granted to an
offending but repenting brother,
and a thousand other sevens and
combinations of seven And here
again we have this mystical, this
fatalistic if not sacred number in
the seven slain policemen and the
seven condemned martyrs of Chi
cago. Remember this, we oppres-
sors, We enslavers of the laboring
men of America! You are driving
us to despair. You hold from
us our heritage in the land. You
are thus compelling us to depend
upon wages earned in your en-
ploy. Having us thus at your
mercy, you are now robbing us of
the greater portion of that which
we produce by our life-shortening
toll. You are causing gaunt want
and grim death to stalk like hor-
rible specters among our wives
and our little ones in the wretched
novels which you compel us to
make our homes. You are max
ing this world to us, indeed a
vale of tears and a wilderness of
woe You are destroying in us
the love of life and the fear of
death, You are driving us to des-
peration which will, if long con-
tinued. eliminate in a revolution,
at the horrors of which even the
imagination stands appalled,. And,
when this revolution comes, when
mighty armies are being dashed
together in deadly conflict. when
the solid ground is being made to
tremble as in an earthquake, when
the air is being rent by unimagin-
able thunders, when thousand
dynamite bombs are bursting be-
meath your feet, when cyclones of
death, in high carnival, are swirling
all around you, then from hundreds
of thousands of throats you will
hear the most terrible of all cries:
Remember the seven martyrs OF